Description: This three part event brings poets from Ireland to Stanford, who, along with Stanford's own Eavan Boland, share the voices of - and a conversation with - some of the most important poets in a country for which poetry is an integral part of its culture, identity and politics. Sponsored by the Consulate of Ireland, San Francisco in association with the Irish Arts Foundation. Part 1 of this series features presentations by the following speakers:
Speaker(s):
John Hennessy, provost, Stanford University
Robert Harrison, professor of Italian, Stanford University
Ronald Schuchard, professor, Modern English and Irish Literature, Emory University
Edna Longley, professor of English, Queens College, Belfast
John Goodby, lecturer in English, University of Wales, Swansea
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